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tridges. The over powder wads are a 
thick card (nearly double the thickness 
used in other makes) plus two black 
edges to fill—total wadding % inch. 
|The shot is perfect in the three sizes 
examined—No. 6, 71% and 8 chilled. 


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Ideal pattern, No. 71 chilled, 30 yds., 
16”, 20” circles. 
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Western 214” cartridge. Full choke barrcl. 
Number of pellets in 16” circle, 101, or 3%; 
20” circle, 111 pellets, or 80%. We call this 
the ‘Ideal .410 Pattern” because for closeness 
and general excellence we have never seen it 
Surpassed with any gun or load, 
4, U. S. Cartridge—All brass case, 
nominally 2” long but actually only 
1.9” long. The brass walls are very 
thin which makes the inside diameter 
of case .448 instead of .410 to .415 as 
is the inside diameter of the paper 
case .410 bore cartridges. This extra 
space afforded by the thin walled case 
and the use of-a dense smokeless 
powder, enables the loading company 
to place full 2%” paper case charges 
in the short shell. The powder charge 
is very exact, weighing 11 grains, in 
each of the six cartridges examined. 
The powder charge is the same for all 
sizes of shot, as is the case with Rem- 
mgton and Winchester cartridges. Over 
oowder, wads—a thin card plus two 

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No. 6 chilled, 35 yds., 18", 24” circles. 
Winchester 214” cartridge (88 pellets to 
harge). Number of pellets in 18” circle is 
4, or 61% ; 24” circle, 75, or 85%. (See series 
bove.). Note how 18” | 
mash a mallard or other large duck at this 
ange, and would kill ducks even farther. 
killing cirele would 

black edges to fill. Total thickness of 
wadding %”.° Cartridges are crimped 
like “blanks” in metallic ammunition. 
The shot pellets are excellent and fairly 
well polished, but more care should be 
used in measuring the shot charge. 
This is a failing of all .410 gauge am- 
munition examined. There is room in 
these U. S. cartridges for five to ten 
more pellets—depending on the size 
shot—and probably could be added with 
advantage. 
Seer charges in well loaded ammu- 
nition for this bore should not vary 
more than two pellets for No. 6 shot; 
three pellets for No. 7%; four pellets 
for No. 8, and six or eight pellets for 
No. 10. An exact number of pellets 
cannot be loaded by measure, as is 
used in machine loaded cartridges. 
Experiment No. 1, No. 10 Chilled Shot 
at 30 Yards. 
Cartridge—Remington 2%", 335 pel- 
lets No. 10 chilled. 
Right Barrel Left Barrel 
20” circle 20” circle 
195 237 
226 216 
239 219 
Bol 231 
220 226 
1101 1129 
65.7% Averages 67.1% 
Ten nice even patterns with splendid 
distribution of pellets and dense enough 
to kill English sparrows regularly up 
to this range. Low pattern 195 or 
58.2% for right brrel and high pattern 
of 239 or 71.3% in the same barrel. All 
patterns are pleasingly uniform, espe- 
cially with the left barrel. 
This is the taxidermist’s load, par 
excellence, and will kill all small game 
well to 25 yards, and tender birds like 
snipe to 30 yards, but in the field we 
tind this tiny pellet, in spite of a very 
dense pattern, not entirely satisfactory 
even on small birds like doves at 30 
yards range. 
Experiment No. 2, No. 8 Chilled Shot 
at 30 Yards. 
A. Cartridge—Remington 214”, 158 
No. 8 chilled shot. 
Series (1) 
Right Barrel Left Barrel 


20” circle 20” circle 
112 98 
118 120 
119 103 
123 101 
103 104 
575 526 
12.1% Averages 66.5% 
Series (2) 
Right Barrel Left Barrel 
20” circle 20” circle 
ila by: 124 
72 109 
106 110 
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No. 7'4 chilled, 30 yds., 20”, 24” circles. 
U. S. 2” All Brass Cartridge. Number of 
pellets in 20” circle is 100, or 80%. Note even 
distribution of pellets and narrowness of killing 
circle (not marked). This is a beautiful shoot- 
ing load in guns to which it is adapted. Twenty- 
four inch cirele is shown to show how “pattern” 
is confined to the 20” circle. 
93 ° es 
95 118 
478 574 
60.5% Averages 72.6% 
Series (3) 
Singie Barrel 
20” circle 
109 Average 
ral 104 
‘lle pellets 
113 or 
114 65.8% 
520 
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No. 4 chilled, 35 yds., 18”, 24” circles. 
Number of pellets in 
; 24” circle, 52 pellets, 
Western 214" cartridge. 
18” cirele is 40, or 62% 
or 81%. 
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